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Terry Eagleton
Sheer fun and sadness welling up out of critical intelligence. -Sunday Times Books of the Year
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‘History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce’ Karl Marx A brilliant account of Marx and his view of utopia and socialism.
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The classic study of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, by the great of socialist critic
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Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to…
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A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners
A BRILLIANT AND ELOQUENT GUIDE TO THE ELUSIVE CONCEPT OF IDEOLOGY
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Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a novelist and playwright. This title includes interviews that cover…
In a wide-ranging discussion that encompasses Shakespeare, Kierkegaard, Aquinas, Wittgenstein, St. Augustine, Kant, Walter Benjamin’s theory of history, and a consideration of the prominent philosopher of hope, Ernst Bloch, Terry…
Without doubt the most important work on literary criticism that has emerged out of the tradition of Marxist philosophy and social theory since the 19th century.
For many enlightened, liberal-minded thinkers today, and for most on the political left, evil is an outmoded concept. This study launches a defence of the reality of evil, drawing on…
A brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and culture
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What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing…
In a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour, Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been (often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient Greece…
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A new account of tragedy and its fundamental position in Western culture
A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humor and comedy within Western culture-by one of its greatest exponents.
One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value
Takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the common objections to Marxism - that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces…
Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature
First published in 1983, Literary Theory: An Introduction is probably the best-selling work of literary criticism in the world today. It propelled its author to a position of such influence…
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Terry Eagleton is one of the most influential contemporary literary theorists and critics. His diverse body of work has been crucial to developments in cultural theory and literary critical practice…
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As the interminable case of ‘Jarndyce and Jarndyce’ grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance…
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We have all wondered about the meaning of life. But is there an answer? And do we even really know what we’re asking? This book takes a quirky look at…
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This work explores the interrelation of Irish political history and Irish literature. It discusses a host of unusual topics, from Shaw and science and Irish attitudes, to nature and the…
An excellent introduction to the range of Eagleton’s thought and his considerable body of work
A history and critique of the last 200 years of cultural criticism, form Addison and Steele to Barthes and Derrida, by Britain’s most stylish critic.
Die Kategorie des AEsthetischen. Im Denken der Menschen besitzt das AEsthetische eine beherrschende Rolle und besticht durch seine Vielfalt und Wandelbarkeit. Dabei sind Freiheit und Gesetzmassigkeit, Spontaneitat und Notwendigkeit, Fremdbestimmung…
Ist das Ende der Ideologie nahe? Das Werk bringt Klarheit in die Vielzahl der Ideologiedefinitionen von der Aufklarung bis zur Postmoderne, bei Marx, Engels, Lukacs, Gramsci, Adorno, Althusser und anderen…
Was ist Literatur?, fragt das mittlerweile legendare Einleitungskapitel dieses Bandes. Pointiert und kritisch-souveran zugleich fuhrt Eagleton an erste literaturtheoretische Fragen heran. Ebenso anschaulich erlautert der Autor in den weiteren Kapiteln…
Analyses the major issues that the subject presents, discussing the writing of Marx and Engels themselves and the work of such critics as Plekhanov, Trotsky, Lenin, Lukacs, Goldmann, Caudwell, Benjamin…
Part of Radical Thinkers series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers.
In his introduction, Terry Eagleton traces the historical evolution of ideology and examines in a more theoretical style the various meanings of the word and their significance. The readings cover…
Terry Eagleton’s witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are regarded as classics of contemporary criticism. Here…
A Marxist study of the Brontes. In this second edition a new introduction has been added.
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In the modern world, ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept. This book unravels the many different meanings…
This is a collection of Terry Eagleton’s best criticisms and book reviews. His skill in this field is notable: never content merely to assess the ideas of a writer, Eagleton…
We have all wondered about the meaning of life. Is there an answer? Is it up to us? Or is the question a bogus one? Terry Eagleton takes a witty…
This collection of essays views Irish culture from the 18th century to the end of the 20th century. The topics range from 18th-century satire and sentimentalism to the modern Irish…
Describes that cultural theory must start thinking ambitiously - not so that it can hand the West its legitimation, but so that it can seek to make sense of the…
This is a bold and original reinterpretation of almost all of Shakespearea s major plays, in the light of the Marxist, feminist and semiotic ideas of our own time.
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In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer…
Features a collection of the author’s work for the theatre - St Oscar , The White , the Gold and the Gangrene , Disappearances , and God’s Locusts .
Offers an account of Ireland’s neglected national intellectuals, an extraordinary group, including such figures as Oscar Wilde’s father William Wilde, Charles Lever, Samuel Ferguson, Isaac Butt, Sheridan Le Fanu.
Focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing the debates around it. This book offers a critique of postmodern ‘culturalism’, arguing instead for a more complex…